THOUGHTS ON BUSINESS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 122, 14 May 1908, Page 4

THOUGHTS ON BUSINESS

There are many young men in business who, through lack of early training, cither through limited opportunities or wasted opportunities, are struggling with a great handicap, which they hardly realise, in their limited knowledge of certain fundamentals of education. They resemble a man in a boat with only one oar, battling against the waves, without even knowing enough to wish for (another oar, without realising that, the reason othurs are making better headway is because they have two oars. The fundamental branches of study—those which every schoolboy is supposed to learn in his early years, and which are often too meagrely understood by young men—arc: How to spell, how to use correct, grammar, good penmanship, arithmetic, geography, history, and etymology. Simple as these branches are, there are thousands who are deficient in them, and yet are blundering along through life, expecting to make a success in business, and yet not realising how greatly they are handicapped by the lack (if these tilings. Those who feel a lack in any of the simple, fundamentals of education cannot afford to neglect anv opportunity they can make to acquire some knowledge in those branehe/i. Fiftv vears of hard work without them cannot hide the defect which may lie overcome bv a~few years of night study.